Frustrating window / workspace behaviour when moving windows

[patrickbolle]

Hi all. Loving Cosmic so far, but one of the most frustrating things for me is when moving windows to another workspace.

If I have only one window open on Workspace #2 and want to move it to #4 - all the windows from workspace #3 get moved into #2. Then I have to go through one by one and move all those windows back to #3, etc.

It's massively frustrating. When I move a window from #2 to #4, I expect that workspace to stay empty / as it was - not become instantly filled with all the other windows, messing up my entire expected workflow.

[ITwrx]

well, it looks like it deletes empty workspaces and renumbers them when one becomes empty and it's not the only one, as opposed to moving all windows from one workspace to another. I also don't always like this behavior, and it could probably be addressed with a "don't autoclose empty workspaces" setting. It's probably like that because otherwise you would have to manually close empty workspaces using some button/method on the workspace overview/switcher and gnome, and now cosmic, have decided against that approach, which is understandable, and possibly the superior default. Perhaps a feature request might be in order.

[mmirus]

I also find this very unpleasant. To some extent, you can mitigate it by pinning the workspaces you normally use. For example, if you pin workspaces 1-3, and move the only window from workspace 2 to workspace 1, workspace 2 won't disappear and workspace 3's windows will stay there.